While it is indeed 20 years ago, it should not be forgiven, if they continue to pull off shitty things like this lawsuit.
Young assholes replace old assholes, and on and on it goes.
Companies culture tend to degrade over time, rarely improve.
It's perfectly faire therefore to requiere overwhelming demonstration of good faith to invalidate such a massive bad behavior.
They Never did So they deserve the PR hit.
Which honestly they didn't take nearly as much as they should have.
Stop defending the billion dollars corps. They have proved over and over they are not our friends.
At best our interests are temporarily aligned.
People working for them are not innocent either. They know the company past, they signed their contracts, and stayed despite the culture.
There is such thing as free will, they have their responsability too.
The "a few bad apples" argument is old and tired now. And the "not all People have a choice" have been repeated a nauseam.
Sony once was a great company. Excellent electronics, great service.
Then they became a media empire...
Japan is just quiet about it. Sony is no aberration.